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    I've become a Whale Nut!

    I can't help myself. These are amazing and intelligent creatures.



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    Check out Architeuthis some time and see the lengths to which its main predator goes in order to catch them...and you'll gain an entirely new appreciation of cetaceans.
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    I have no doubts what man has done to harvest these amazing animals. The fact that it still goes on (for sport over in COR's neck of the woods) pisses me off.


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    As far i know we don't capture or shoot any of them for decades.
    I've been on the last whaleship we had as kid the Willem Barents that was sold off then.
    Since 1964 the Dutch never hunted whales again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PA5COR View Post
    As far i know we don't capture or shoot any of them for decades.
    I've been on the last whaleship we had as kid the Willem Barents that was sold off then.
    Since 1964 the Dutch never hunted whales again.

    That is traditional whaling for food and oil (I have eaten whale when I was a child). This is what I am talking about: http://www.divephotoguide.com/underw..._photographed/

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    Do you stick to the whales thigh? :P

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    OK I checked out Google Maps. While the Faroe Islands are COR's neighbours, they are distant neighbours. Closer to the UK and Norway......... I always thought the Netherlands and Norway were the same thing. The Dutch live there and run around among the Tulips in wooden shoes....... Learn something new everyday!


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    Quote Originally Posted by KA9MOT View Post
    The Dutch live there and run around among the Tulips in wooden shoes....... Learn something new everyday!
    Not "tulips". Papaver Somniferum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
    Not "tulips". Papaver Somniferum.
    Poppies are pretty too! I prefer Roses and then Tulips. Wish my old lady would plant some. My mom had dozens of Rose Bushes and hundreds of Tulips. Allot of fruit trees too. Every year she planted 1/4 acre with vegetables. We ate very well when I was at home.


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    Quote Originally Posted by KA9MOT View Post
    OK I checked out Google Maps. While the Faroe Islands are COR's neighbours, they are distant neighbours. Closer to the UK and Norway......... I always thought the Netherlands and Norway were the same thing. The Dutch live there and run around among the Tulips in wooden shoes....... Learn something new everyday!

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